Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Jeff Koons do for Sgarbi what he did for that other member of the Italian Parliament , the even nuder Cicciolina ? |
| 2 | CONSIDER what J Edgar Hoover did for freedom . |
| 3 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 4 | ‘ Remember what Alan Taylor did for us at West Ham in 1975 ? |
| 5 | Most of what Aunt Lavvy does for me , she does from choice — over and above my allowance , that is , which is held in trust . ’ |
| 6 | Just what have South Africa done for the game during their isolation ? |
| 7 | Faced with an actor reading , as Alan Bates did for much of his one-man show at Edinburgh this year , you 're tempted to conclude that he 's a little under-rehearsed . |
| 8 | They rang us to reveal all the good work Lamb does for them — one of many messages of support for him . |
| 9 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 10 | I 've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 12 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 13 | What did Doctor Jekyll ask his friend Lanyon to do for him ? |
| 14 | O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection . |
| 15 | And what could twenty-two-year-old trainee social worker Gillian Wyatt do for them ? |
| 16 | One of the very special things Christine did for her was to write notes to leave for the tradesmen when Miss Miggs was going to be out when they called — like NO MILK TODAY , THANK YOU , or ONE SMALL LOAF , PLEASE . |
| 17 | It did not do as much for his career as Midnight Cowboy did for Jon Voight . |
| 18 | For Porsche , the 911 holds the same place as the Dino Berlinetta Speciale does for Ferrari — a marvellous design that could be continually updated and evolved . |
| 19 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 20 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 21 | Kath Kath did for Vince , she got some anti-biotics for Vince . |
| 22 | This is the thing Ken done for us . |
| 23 | Taylor says : ‘ What we should be saying now is not what can Great Britain do for small businesses , but what can small businesses do for Great Britain . |
| 24 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 25 | The book does for harmonisation in Europe 1992 what John Wayne did for the ballet . |
| 26 | This potentially dry subject is illustrated with an extraordinary wealth of anecdotal detail , doing for cricket what Leo Rosten did for his native language in the fabled Joys of Yiddish . |
| 27 | Ripley , a winger with wonderful control for his size and strength , can nearly do for Blackburn what John Robertson did for Clough all those years ago . |